Belal Muhammad 'Smelled Fear' While Sharing Elevator with Leon Edwards’ Team

Belal Muhammad believes Leon Edwards and his camp are afraid going into their upcoming UFC 304 clash.

Muhammad challenges Edwards for the welterweight title in the main event at UFC 304 in Manchester, England, on Saturday. Muhammad recently ran into Edwards and his crew in an elevator. “Remember the Name” claims Edwards’ coach, Dave Lovell, was the only one talking trash and hopes he attends the press conference.

“I just saw him right now in the elevator. He looked like he was afraid,” Muhammad told MMAjunkie.com . “Him and his brother and his coach, they all look like cowards. His coach was trying to talk a little bit of trash, so I’m hoping that his coach is at the press conference, because I know Leon’s not gonna be able to talk.”

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According to Muhammad, he was with another teammate when Edwards walked into the elevator with a crew of six to seven people. While Muhammad chose to stay put, he believes that wouldn’t have been the case if the tables were turned. Muhammad traded a few barbs with Lovell and looks with Fabian Edwards . To sum it up, Edwards finds the whole of Edwards’ contingent “weird.”

“We were in the same elevator. They were a group of like six or seven guys, so they thought they’d be tougher or whatever,” Muhammad said. “But me and my boy Max could always hold anything down… I was already on. He wouldn’t be confident enough to stay in the elevator if my group was walking in. He would walk out. For me, we stayed on. They thought they were gonna be cooler or try to be tougher, but I smelled fear… Leon didn’t say a word. His coach was talking, but he just has a weird, stupid accent, and he kind of sounds like he has autism or he’s slow. So, I don’t know what he was saying, but he didn’t sound smart at all.

“We were going back and forth with his coach, not even with him. But then his brother was giving me like a weird look in his eyes. They just look like a weird group of guys. If you saw them walking down the street, you’d be like, ‘Bro those guys, they got issues.’”